Dear Editor
A DPI article on 28 Dec, 2024 says that there is a Law Revision process going on. It is not clear though whether the Government is removing some of the discriminatory laws and derived practices from the books, or retaining the plantation legacies as the oil flows
Recent news of a sentence of flogging seems a move towards some other oil prosperous economies with high GDPs where floggings, beheadings and stoning and so are applied. Will the Government be updating laws to so that there is no flogging of those convicted of crimes, and no flogging of children in Guyana’s schools either?
Will the Law Revision remove all the other discriminatory legislation? So many bills passed in parliament with ease, why not those bills which remove beating from ideas of punishing children and criminals? Or will this long process just leave us exactly where we are, sustaining violent legacies while pretending to be humane, civilised and modern?
Sincerely,
Vidyaratha Kissoon
